Senior Service Engineer (DevSecOps)
The Opportunity
CloudFit is seeking a Senior Service Engineer to design, deploy, modernize, and operate secure, scalable customer solutions. This role combines deep technical expertise with project leadership, customer partnership, and mentorship across Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, and DevOps environments. You will own complex technical outcomes, guide implementation decisions, and help engineers and customers succeed.
What You'll Own
Cloud Architecture & Solution Delivery
- Design and implement cloud-native solutions using Azure, AWS, and modern platform technologies.
- Translate customer requirements into secure, scalable, and maintainable architectures.
- Lead deployment, modernization, and continuous improvement initiatives across customer environments.
- Architect, deploy, and continuously harden cloud and hybrid environments to meet security, compliance, and governance requirements while enabling scalable, reliable service delivery.
Technical Ownership & Operations
- Own technical solutions throughout their lifecycle, from design and implementation through ongoing operations.
- Improve the reliability, security, scalability, and operational maturity of customer systems.
- Support production workloads through on-call rotations and incident response when required.
Automation & Platform Engineering
- Drive Infrastructure as Code, automation, GitOps, and DevOps practices across projects.
- Reduce operational toil through automation and process improvement.
- Establish and apply engineering standards for cloud platforms, security, networking, and system administration, based on industry and CloudFit best practices.
Leadership & Customer Partnership
- Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews, and project implementation efforts.
- Mentor engineers through coaching, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
- Partner with customer stakeholders to shape solutions that meet mission and business objectives.
What Success Looks Like
During the first 6 months, you will:
- Build trusted relationships with customers, project teams, and engineering peers.
- Assume ownership of customer environments and defined technical solution areas.
- Contribute to cloud architecture, automation, and modernization initiatives.
- Demonstrate technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and complex problem-solving.
During months 6 through 18, you will:
- Lead complex cloud, platform, and modernization initiatives, exercising broad judgment in determining technical approaches and implementation strategies.
- Deliver measurable improvements in reliability, automation, security, and operational maturity while contributing to engineering best practices across projects.
- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers and teammates, sharing knowledge, mentoring engineers, and helping teams navigate complex technical challenges.
Longer term, you will strengthen engineering maturity, enable customer success, develop future technical leaders, and help shape CloudFit service engineering practices.
What We're Looking For
- 6-8+ years of relevant experience in cloud, platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering.
- Strong experience designing and operating Azure environments, with familiarity across AWS or hybrid architectures.
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code, including Bicep, Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
- Experience administering Kubernetes and deploying applications using modern GitOps and DevOps practices, including CI/CD Pipelines.
- Experience with enterprise cloud networking, governance, security, identity, Linux or Windows administration, and Git workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects, mentor engineers, and influence team-level engineering decisions.
- Strong judgment and communication skills, with the ability to solve complex problems and engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience writing production-ready scripts or code in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or a similar language.
Preferred: Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Azure certification, or comparable cloud certification. These credentials are valued but not required.
Additional Requirements
- US Citizenship is required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a federal security clearance.
- Ability to travel to support customers in secure or air-gapped environments.
- Participation in on-call support rotations may be required.
- Ability to meet customer-specific access, credential, or security requirements when applicable.
Key Partners
This role works closely with Service Engineers, Platform Engineers, Software Engineers, project and delivery leaders, security teams, customer stakeholders, and CloudFit leadership to deliver high-quality technical solutions and customer outcomes.
The salary range for this role is $85,800 - $173,599.92 + benefits, & perks.
Please note the national salary range listed in the job posting reflects the new hire salary range across levels and U.S. locations that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be commensurate with the candidate’s final level and location. Also, the range represents salary only and does not include our total rewards package.
Current Federal Security Clearance or ability to obtain (US Citizenship required)
*CloudFit participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies show that women and people of color often hesitate to apply for jobs unless they meet every qualification listed. At CloudFit, we’re committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply! You might be the perfect fit for this position—or another one on our team.
CloudFit Benefits & Perks:
- CloudFit benefits are designed with wellness in mind, to support what matters the most:
- Physical Health: Medical, dental, vision insurance, & voluntary health options for you and your family!
- Mental Health: Talkspace, Calm, virtual therapy, counseling
- Financial Wellness: 401(k), HSA, FSAs, Personal Financial Advisors
- 3 Weeks of PTO, 15 Paid Company Holidays, 8 Giving Back Hours
- Wellness Program: reimbursement, gym discounts, health fairs, & more!
- Recognition Program: Earn & give recognition, annual awards, celebrations
Career development for employees at every level is a priority at CloudFit.
- Certification Reimbursement
- User Friendly Career Development Tools & Resources
Check out CloudFit Candidate Portal for more information on roles, benefits, internships, and more!
About This Opportunity
This role may be part of our proactive hiring process. While an immediate opening may not be available, we’re interviewing candidates to build relationships and identify strong fits for future opportunities as roles open.
Curious to learn more? Check out our Careers page to discover our hiring process and what life at CloudFit is like.
About CloudFit
CloudFit Software provides customers the ability to quickly iterate on the development of Cloud Solutions while optimizing security, networking, operations, and monitoring through an engineering mindset. At CloudFit, we instrument solutions that attempt to reduce the human element by applying automation and engineering to every aspect of a solution's lifecycle. CloudFit focuses on delivering managed scenarios that meet customer business needs. This allows us to provide core operational outcomes while integrating back with the customer’s existing operations teams.
Please be aware many of our positions require the ability to obtain security clearance. Security clearances may only be granted to U.S. citizens. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment may be subject to government security investigation(s) and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
CloudFit is committed to providing reasonable accommodations and support in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need accommodation, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at careers@cloudfitsoftware.com.
CloudFit is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society, including veterans, and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.